~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.

The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.

Deborah Howell was the Post’s ombudsman in 2008. Soon after this article was written, she resigned on principle, as she could not in good faith give a credible accounting to the Post’s readers of the rationale behind the Post’s editorial decisions. And, again from Howell’s article, here is the rationale for the Obama decisions, as provided by the political editorContinue Reading — WAPO To Leave No Stone Unturned